cloud-architecture
Multi-cloud, VPC design, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
Profile →npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill cloud-architecture --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Cloud Architecture Design resilient, cost-effective cloud architectures. ## Design Pillars | Pillar | Focus | Pattern | |--------|-------|---------| | Reliability | Fault tolerance, recovery | Multi-AZ, redundancy, auto-healing | | Security | Defense in depth | IAM, encryption, network segmentation | | Cost | Efficiency, waste reduction | Right-sizing, reserved instances, autoscaling | | Performance | Speed, scalability | CDN, caching, horizontal scaling | | Operational | Manageability, automation | IaC, CI/CD, runbooks | ## VPC Design ### Multi-Tier Architecture ``` Internet → WAF → ALB → App Tier (private) → DB Tier (private) ↕ Auto Scaling ``` ### Best Practices - Use multiple AZs (minimum 3) - Private subnets for apps and databases - Public subnets only for load balancers and bastions - NACLs for subnet-level rules, Security Groups for instance-level - VPC peering or Transit Gateway for multi-VPC ## High Availability - **Compute**: Multi-AZ Auto Scaling groups, spot + on-demand mix - **Database**: Multi-AZ RDS, Aurora read replicas - **Storage**: S3 (11 9's durability), EBS snapshots - **DNS**: Route53 with health-check based failover - **CDN**: CloudFront/CloudFlare for glob
- Design Pillars
- VPC Design
- Multi-Tier Architecture
- Best Practices
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- DR Plan
- Cost Optimization
What does the cloud-architecture skill do?
Multi-cloud, VPC design, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill cloud-architecture --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills, a repository with 364 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.